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A BATTLE ODE DESCRIPTIVE OF THE 

Grand Charge of the Third Day 

JULY 3, 1863 



ROBERT WM. DOUTHAT 

(Now Professor in the West Virginia University) 

The Gettysburg 'Battle Lecturer, one of Tickett's Captains, 

and the only one of the Ten Captains in his Regiment 

who came out of the Charge unhurt 



NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON 
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 

1905 



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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

NOV 28 1905 

Cooy right Entry 

CLASS O,' XXc. No. 

COPY D. 



COPYRIGHT, 1905 

BY 

ROBERT WM. DOUTHAT 



All Rights Reserved 



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To Every Man of Every Nation 

Who Admires Human Courage 

Exercised in Favor of his Country 

This Battle Ode 

*' GETTYSBURG" 

Is Respectfully Dedicated 
By the Author 
Who was a participant in " The Charge 



**The Charge," generally known as ** Pickett's 
Charge," might be called "The Pickett-Pettigrew- 
Trimble Charge," but, rather than give it so long 
a name, the world has chosen to give it the name 
of the commander who led the right wing, partly 
because Pickett's three brigades were made up of 
fresh troops, and as such were intended to give 
direction to the assault ; and partly because in the 
charge Pickett's^ three brigades suffered most. 

As a Virginian I scorn the boast that Pickett's 
Virginians were in anywise more gallant than the 
Tennesseeans or North Carolinians or Mississippians 
who were also in the assault. These latter had 
been in the terrible battle of the first day, and 
Pickett's men had not been in either the first or 
second day's battle. Tennesseeans, North Carolin- 
ians, and Mississippians had suffered greatly on the 
first day, losing over half their men, and many of 
those who had been wounded in the battle of the 



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first day went into the Great Charge on the third 
day with bandages on their heads or arms, at sight 
of which the imperturbable Lee is said to have 
shed tears. 

Heaven forbid that Virginians should ever arro- 
gate to themselves the glory that comes from this 
Charge ! The glory belongs equally to the men 
of sister States, and there is certainly glory enough 
in the Charge for all, for no assault was ever made 
in all the annals of war more gallant and glorious 
than 

The Grand Charge of July jd, i86^. Against 
Cemetery Hill ! 
Across the "Broad Falley of Death, 
Through a Hail of Deadly Missiles, 
Against an Avalanche of Fire, 
Over the Breastworks of a Stubborn Foe, 
Into the Center of Overwhelming Masses of Fed- 
eral Infantry! 

Here was a "devotion" of which the Roman of 
old had never dreamed ; here was a " holocaust " of 
sacrificial victims, such as Greece had never known! 
The men who at Marathon and Leuctra bled were 
not greater heroes than those who fell at Gettys- 



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bur^. Napoleon's " Old Guard " never went more 
grandly to death than did Confederates " against 
the roaring crown of those dread heights of des- 
tiny," nor did Wellington command better soldiers 
than those who under the Stars and Stripes met 
and repulsed this terrible assault. 

The Charge described in the " Battle Ode " fol- 
lowing this Introduction was preceded by a terrific 
artillery duel of three hundred guns, and this duel 
lasted about two hours. 

If you could imagine three hundred thunder- 
storms, all raging at once, and you yourself with 
ten thousand other persons in a forest and the 
lightning striking every other tree and killing- every 
other man, you would have some idea of how we 
felt, if not of how we fared, during those two long 
hours. It was a period of awful suspense, such 
perhaps as no body of troops in any part of the 
world ever had to endure. The roar of the battle 
was heard for more than a hundred miles and 
mother earth trembled as from an earthquake. 
Multitudes were killed and wounded on both the 
Seminary and Cemetery Hills ; and while to those 
under fire agony seemed to reign supreme, to those 
at a distance the awful sublimity of the crash and 



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roar was as that which shall come " in the wreck 
of matter and the crash of worlds." 

Some of the things said by Federals concerning 
the '' Artillery Duel " : 

(1) Col. Norman J. Hall, U. S. Army, comd'g Brig., 2d 
Corps : 

" The experience of the terrible grandeur of that rain of 
missiles and that chaos of strange and terror-spreading 
sounds, unexampled, perhaps, in history, must ever remain 
undescribable, but can never be forgotten by those who 
heard it." 

(2) Gen* I IVinfield Scott Hancock, U. S. Army, comd'g 2d 
Corps : 

" The number of the enemy's guns is variously estimated 
at from 115 to 150. The air was filled with projectiles, 
there being scarcely an instant but that several were seen 
bursting at once. No irregularity of ground offered much 
protection, and the plain in rear of the line of battle was 
soon swept of everything movable." 

(3) Col. Chapman Biddle, U. S. Army, 121st Penn., ist Corps: 
" The fury of the unparalleled artillery fire." 

(4) Gen' I O. O. Howard, U.S. Army, comd'g 1 ith Corps : 
" There was safety on Cemetery Hill nowhere : shells were 

exploding in the earth, in the air, in the rock fences, among 
the tombstones, and in the caissons — in front, in rear, 
around us, under us, above us; and one of the Con- 
federate shells killed and wounded twenty-seven Federal 
soldiers in one regiment." 



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While many men and horses were killed and 
wounded on the Confederate side during the two 
hours' cannonade, yet the terror and agony were 
not all on the one side. 

Capt. Jno. G. Hazard, 1st Rhode Island Light 
Artillery, comd'g Brigade, says, " So great was 
the loss in officers and men and horses, that it was 
found necessary to consolidate five batteries into 
three. In several of these batteries, every officer 
was either killed or wounded." Cushing's Battery 
was so completely disabled, that fifty men had to 
be detailed from 71st Penn. Inf. to help work the 
guns ; and finally Gushing, wounded in both legs 
and having only one gun left, had that gun pushed 
to the front and was held up until " he could serve 
his last canister into the enemy's ranks." 

Men were decapitated, disemboweled,— wound- 
ed in every conceivable manner, — and one Federal 
cannoneer, J. F. Chase, Steven's Fifth Maine Bat- 
tery, was wounded forty-eight times. 

If our 6,000 shells had each done the same 
amount of damage, there would have been few 
Union soldiers left to tell of this the mightiest 
artillery contest that the world has ever known. 

The artillery battalions and batteries of the 



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Confederates which took part in the artillery duel 
preceding '' The Charge " : 

I. Those belonging to Longstreet's Corps, extending 
for one mile in a slight curve, arranged in order from left 
to right of this page, as one would look at them from the 
Union side : 



(') 

Maj. H. W. Henry's 
Battalion, 



i8 Guns, 

Branch (N. Car.) Bat. 
German (S. Car.) Bat. 
Palmetto (S. Car.) Bat. 
Rowan (N. Car.) Bat. 



(2) 

Col. E. P. Alexander's 

Battalion, 
Commanded by 
Maj. Frank Huger, 
i6 Guns, 

Ashland (Va.) Bat. 
Bedford (Va.) Bat. 
Brooks (S. Car.) Bat. 
Madison (La.) Bat. 
A Virginia Battery 
A Virginia Battery 



(3) 



Maj. 



B. F. Echleman's 
Battalion, 
Washington (La.) 
Artillery, 

8 Guns 
and 2 in reserve, 
ist Company 
2d Company 
3d Company 
4th Company 



(4) 
Maj. Jas. Dearing's 
Battalion, 
i8 Guns, 

Fauquier (Va.) Bat. 
Hampden (Va.) Bat. 
Richmond Fayette Bat. 
A Virginia Battery 



(5) 
Col. H. C. Cabell's 

Battalion, 

1 1 Guns, 
and 4 in reserve, 
ist N. Car., Bat. A 
Pulaski (Ga.) Bat. 
ist Richmond Howitzers 
Troup (Ga.) Battery 



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II. Those belonging to A. P. Hill's Corps, continuing 
the first mile curve at least another mile, arranged in order 
from left to right of this page, as one would look at them 
from the Union side : 



(■) 

Maj. W.J. Poague's 
Battalion, 



lo Guns, 
and 6 in reserve, 
Albemarle (Va.) Bat. 
Charlotte (N. Car.) Bat. 
Madison (Miss.) Bat. 
A Virginia Battery 



(2) 

Maj. W.J. Pegram's 

Battalion, 
Commanded by 
Captain Brunson, 

i6 Guns, 
and 3 in reserve, 
Crenshaw (Va.) Bat. 
Fredericksb'g (Va.) Bat. 
Letcher (Va.) Bat. 
Pee Dee (S. Car.) Bat. 
Purcell (Va.) Bat. 



Maj. 



(5) 

D. G. Mcintosh's 
Battalion, 



17 Guns, 

Danville (Va.) Bat. 
Hardaway (Ala.) Bat. 
2d Rockbridge (Va.) Bat. 
A Virginia Battery 



(4) 

Maj. John Lane's 

Sumter Battalion, 

17 Guns, 

Company A. 
Company B. 
Company C. 



(5) 

Lt. Col. J. J. Garnett's 
Battalion, 
9 Guns, 
and 6 in reserve, 
Donaldsonville (La.) Bat. 
Huger (Va.) Bat. 
Lewis (Va.) Bat. 
Norfolk (Va.) Bat. 



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The troops engaged in the Charge, from left to right, 
looked at from Union side, were as follows : 



Kemper's Brigade, .-3-7-1 -24 Va. | pj^^^^^,^ Division,* 

Armistead's Brigade, 9-,4-38-5?-57 Va. > Longstreef s Corps. 

Garnett's Brigade, 8-18-19-28-56 Va. ) 

Archer's Tenn. Brig., i-7-i4Tenn.; 13 Ala.; 5 Ala. Bat. ) 

Pettigrew's N. Car. Brig., 11-26-47-52 N. Car. ! Heth's Division, 

Davis's Miss, Brig., 2-1 1-42 Miss, and 55 N. Car. j A. P. Hill's Corps. 

Brockenbrough's Va. Brig,, 40-47-55 and 22 Bat. I 



As supports for Pickett's right flank, there were, 

Wilcox's Ala. Brig., 8-9-10-1 1-14 Ala. (^ R. H. Anderson's Div., 

Perry's Fla. Brig., 2-5-8 Fla. ( A. P. Hill's Corps, 



As supports for Archer's, Pettigrew's, and Davis's Brigades, 



■ -..T ^ r> • DO -w, ^ I Pender's Division, 

Lane sN. Car. Brig., 7-18-28-33-37 N. Car, ( , o -r • 

c 1 . XT /- D • ^ o XT /- / (Com. bvGen.J.R. Tnm- 

Scale'sN. Car. Brig., 13-16-22-34-38 N. Car. \ / .;* 

I ble), A. P. Hill s Corps. 



* Corse's Brigade of Pickett's Division was not in the Charge, having been left be- 
hind to help guard the approaches to Richmond, Va. 



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Some of the things said by Federal officers 
concerning the " Charge " : 

/. Maj. Gen' I HemyJ. Hunt, Chief of Federal /trtillery : 

" The enemy advanced magnificently, unshaken by the 
shot and shell which tore through his ranks from 
McGilvery's Battery." 

2. Maj. Gen'l IVinfield Scott Hancock, U. S. Army, com- 
manding 2d Corps : 
" Their lines were formed with a precision and steadiness 

that extorted the admiration of the witnesses of that 

memorable scene." 

;?. Brig. Gen' I John Gibbons, U. S. Army, commanding 2d 

Div., 2d Corps : 

" As the enemy's front line came up, it was met by such 
a withering fire of canister and musketry as soon melted 
it away, but still on they came from behind, pressing for- 
ward to the wall." 

4. Col. Norman J. Hall, U. S. Army, commanding ^d "Brig., 
2d Corps : 

" Twenty battle-flags were captured in the space of 100 
yards square." 

5. Capt. Andrew Cowan, ist Independent Bat., New York 
State Vols : 

" Our artillery fire was quite accurate and did much 
execution ; still, the rebel line advanced in a most splendid 



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manner. I commenced firing canister at 200 yards, and 
the etTect was greater than I could have anticipated. My 
last charge (a double-header) literally swept the enemy from 
my front, being fired at less than 20 yards." 

6. Maj. T. IV. Osborn, ist N. Y. Light Artillery Brig., i itb 
Corps : 

"We used, according to distance, all descriptions of 
projectiles, * * * The enemy's advance was most 
splendid." 

7. Brig. Gen! I Alexander Hays, U. S. Army, commanding 
^d Div., 2d Corps : 

" Their march was as steady as if impelled by machinery, 
unbroken by our artillery, which played upon them a storm 
of missiles. When within 100 yards of our line of infantry, 
the fire of our men could no longer be restrained. Four 
lines rose from behind our stone wall, and when the smoke 
of our first volley had cleared away, such a Held was pre- 
sented as could be produced only by the angel of death." 

8. Maj. Theodore G. Ellis, U. S. Army, 14th Conn., 2d Corps : 
" The spectacle of their advance was magnificent." 

9. Capt. Henry C. Coates, U. S. Army, ist Minn., 2d Corps : 
" The enemy marched resolutely in the face of a wither- 
ing fire up to our lines, and succeeded in planting their 
colors on one of our batteries." 



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I. The Artillery Duel 



Three hundred guns in rage have striven, 
Three hundred guns the skies have riven, 
And muttering thunders strong and deep 
Have rolled along in mighty sweep. 
This hurricane's rush has ceased its roar, 
And Alexander sounds the note 
For charge against the central host : 
" Go, Pickett, now ; the charge begin ; 
Go only now : a victory you '11 win 
Renowned Forevermore ! " 



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Pickett, gallant, gladly waiting, 
Accepts the lull as omen bright 
For added fame ; and as courtly knight 
On hurrying steed, of chief inquires 
If Longstreet now the Charge desires ; 
But Longstreet, sad o'er loss foreseen, 
Turns head away, as though he 'd say, 
** I 'd rather much this move forego. 
For from such* charge fame can not flow 
Onward Forevermore ! " 



With ardor that shall burn in story 
While hearts yet thrill to deeds of glory, 
Says Pickett, '' Up and form your lines : 
To-day your battle saves our cause ; 
To-day this charge destroys the foe's: 
Now knit the brow and clench the teeth ; 
With muscles tense and hearts aglow, 
This charge must sure the center break ; 
This charge the South's fair name shall make 
Brilliant Forevermore ! 



* Reference to Napoleon's Charge at Waterloo. 



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* With God o'erhead and gun in hand, 
No force can stay your Spartan band ! 
This day your foe awaits in dread 
The reckless, rapid, martial tread 
Of legions brave as men e'er led ! 
Onward ! Steady ! though storm shall blow 
A fiercer gale, still onward go, 
And breast the billows from yonder's shore. 
For on your heads shall honors pour 
Ceaseless Forevermore ! 



" On left brave Tennesseeans wait, 
And choicest troops of the Old North State, 
With Mississippians true and tried, 
And more to swell Virginia's tide ; 
On right our Alabama's pride 
And best of Florida abide ! 
Hence, onward go ! and trust that Lee 
By matchless skill shall make you see, 
That from this field your wreath shall be 
Fadeless Forevermore ! 



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"This plain far more than others brings 
To you of fame which poet sings : 
Your double-quick in peerless dash 
Shall be the wonder of the world, 
And men who see your flags unfurled 
'Gainst fiery blasts from out the throat 
Of guns that belch a leaden hail, 
Of guns that breathe a roaring flame, 
Shall gladly give to you a name 
Illustrious Forevermore ! " 



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II. The Charge 



Ten thousand Southrons now rise to the test, 
And form fheir lines out to the west 
Of " Seminary's " famous crest — 
A ridg^e whose top was swept by fire, 
Whose sides were torn by cyclone's ire, 
Whose breast received the dreadful shock 
Of storm that made the mountain rock, 
And sent the awful thunders down, 
Reverberations of a vast renown. 

Echoless ? — Nay : Nevermore ! 



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Across the ridge as legions move, 
Both shot and shell their courage prove; 
Then grape and canister the guns employ 
These braves to assail, these braves to destroy : 
''Close in your ranks," the captains cried, 
" To fill the gaps where men have died ; 
Close in to left, but do not crowd ! 
Steady ! Think not of battle's din ! 
In impact close the prize you '11 win 
Precious Forevermore ! " 

" Onward ! Steady ! "— '' He 's fallen ! "— '* Never 
mind! 
Hospital men your friends shall find ! 
Your faces forward ! Hold your fire ! 
In yonder's angle yet shall rage 
The fiercest fight brave men can wage: 
There must you meet a stubborn foe ; 
There must be shown a strength unknown 
In former years; and, though all go down, 
To all shall be the hero's crown 
Glittering Forevermore ! " 



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Nearer now and deadlier still 
Shell and shrapnel rake the hill ; 
Nearer yet and fiercer grew 
The tempest which grape and canister blew; 
Nearer yet and thicker fall 
The double canister's deadly pall; 
Deafening the roar and deepening more 
The storm — the flood, yet none the less 
Onward our braves for honor press 
Brightening Forevermore ! 

Still onward rush the gallant few, 
Still onward as with courage new. 
Still onward, though the field is filled, 
The front, the flank, the hill, the plain. 
With hurrying horse and fiercer flame. 
With Federal lines now crowding straight 
To meet their foe, to meet their fate. 
To meet and conquer here or die. 
Whence fame shall rise and praises be 
Endless Forevermore! 



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Brave Kemper 's down and Garnett too, 
The colors fall, the colonels die, 
While captains and lieutenants lie 
Wounded or dying outside the wall : 
Meanwhile across the works have sprung 
Men as heroic as Homer has sung, 
And Armistead grand e'en unto death, 
With cap on sword, in loudest breath, 
Calls, " Onward, men ! this day shall be 
Cloudless Forevermore ! " 

Onward they go as rising tide 
That rolls far up the mountain side ; 
Cemetery's crest they reach at last. 
But as broken waves, their limit passed. 
Backward they 're hurled by hosts here massed. 
Brave Tennessee is here to die, 
And Carolina always true. 
Far to the front with Pettigrew, 
Supports our left and glory gains 
Priceless Forevermore ! 



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Cushing's last gun at length is reached, 
And Armistead's hand toward muzzle stretched; 
He calls aloud, " Gushing, surrender ! " 
The gun replies, " Armistead, no: never!" 
The gallant Gushing had begged to fire 
This only gun now left entire; 
And as the fuse he cuts once more, 
His soul heroic goes out to fame. 
And by his death he makes his name 
Memorable Forevermore! 

And now they meet us hand to hand : 
The gatherin-g foe our lines have hemmed ; 
All loading stops, but lo! the strife. 
With clubbed muskets waged for life, 
Grows fiercer still till all is lost 
In the Last One Hundred a Holocaust ; 
But dying groans bravely suppressed. 
And smiles yet bright from features calm 
Have won for these the hero's palm 
Glorious Forevermore! 



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QIonrluBtnn 

Had this charge been supported by 10,000 more 
troops, and had all parts of the Confederate lines 
moved at one time against the Federals, north, 
east, and south, while our charge was in prog- 
ress FROM THE WEST, there is little doubt that 
Meade's army would have been cut in twain and 
routed ; but, while the charge was going on, the 
other parts of the Confederate line were holding 
their breath, filled with amazement at so terrible 
an onset against the very center of an entrenched 
foe ; and so troops were allowed to concentrate 
from all quarters against the little band that had 
broken over the Union breastworks. From such 
encircling hosts and murderous fire escape was 
impossible, and men must die or surrender to the 
maddened might of a successful and determined 
enemy. 



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Pickett lost his three brigadiers and all his field 
officers but one lieutenant-colonel ; and after the 
charge, regiments were commanded by beardless 
captains and companies by sergeants and corpor- 
als, so great had been the loss. Some of the 
North Carolina companies were almost annihilated . 
This was particularly true in the 26th North Caro- 
lina, which suffered more than any one regiment^ 
North or South. 

Meade found himself so crippled by the three 
days' battle, that he could not agree to carry out 
the Washington policy, and follow vigorously after 
Lee in the retreat from Gettysburg. He knew that 
Lee was not any more really whipped than him- 
self, and hence, he preferred to merely keep up the 
appearance of pursuit, while he studiously avoided 
any direct assault upon Lee's battered and bruised, 
but brave men, who, if they did not now cling so 
tenaciously to the Cause they loved, yet loved 
their commander with a devotion that would still 
have held them to a losing battle or a lingering 
death. Gettysburg was not a Waterloo; 
for, after Waterloo, Napoleon's troops deserted 
him, but Lee's men, 40,000 strong, were yti ready 
to die with him. Gettysburg was, however, The 



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Most Decisive Battle of the War. The 
flower of Southern chivalry was here so blasted 
by the North wind's breath, that it never rebloomed 
to decorate again the rank and file of the Confed- 
erate army. 27,739 brave men of our army were 
gone and their places could not be filled, but the 
23,049 lost to the Union army could soon be re- 
placed from foreign countries, if not from the 
North, by double and quadruple the loss at Gettys- 
burg. Hence the might of overwhelming num- 
bers must ere long decide what courage and skill 
had hitherto been powerless to accomplish. 

The BEGINNING OF THE END was already seen. 
Confederate boundaries were being contracted, 
supplies were diminishing, men who had suffering 
families at home were growing more and more 
dissatisfied, desertions increased, and finally Lee's 
veterans of a hundred battle-fields, cooped up in 
Richmond and Petersburg, were only waiting for 
the bursting of a storm that had been gathering 
for months, a storm that should lay open these 
two strongholds in the East and scatter the rem- 
nants of proud and puissant armies that for four 
long years had resisted successfully every attempt 
to enter these citadels. 



GETTYSBURG 27 

Battles had been fierce and furious all along the 
way from the Potomac to the James and the Ap- 
pomattox, but Confederate soldiers were fighting 
more in desperation than in hope, more for honor 
than for success ; and, 

Hope's star so long before their eyes, 
Encircled quite by rainbow's dyes, 
Soon passed forever from out the skies. 



The Author. 



West Virginia University, 

Morgantown, W. Va., 
^August )i, igo<j. 



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Prof. C. H. Cole, Supt. of Schools, Martinsburg, W. Va.: 

" Never have I heard or read anything to equal the vivid 
language of Dr. Douthat, who was a participant in the great 
struggle." 

Rev. W. S. Neighbors, D. D., Pastor State Street M. E. 
C, South, Bristol, Tenn.: 

" Prof. Douthat's lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg is 
worthy a place in the classic literature of this country. For 
loftiness of statement, clear presentation, manliness of 
spirit toward all parties, I have never heard anything equal 
to it." 

Huntington (W. Va.) "Advertiser," June 24, 1902 : 

" He had a great story to tell, — the story of one of the 
fiercest and bloodiest battles in all human history,— and 
he told it with luminous clearness and simplicity." 

Monroe (W. Va.) " Watchman," July 2, 1903 : 

" Capt. Douthat's lecture is a revelation of historic truth 
in the style that thrills and enthralls." 

St. Joseph (Mo.) " News-Press," July 1, 1905 : 

" It has been frequently said that no impartial history of 
the Civil War has been written. Whether this be true or 



GETTYSBURG 29 

not, no one could have listened to Capt. Douthat's lecture 
last evening in the Lyceum Theater and believe that an un- 
biased account of the Battle of Gettysburg has not been 
written * * * He held the attention of the audience every 
minute he spoke, and certainly a plainer, more graphic de- 
scription of the battle could not have been given." 

Rev. W. S. Neighbors, D. D., Bristol, Tenn., August, 
1902: 

" Having heard Prof . Douthat's lecture,! shall carry with 
me always a higher regard for both the Blue and the Gray." 

Rev. Chas. S. Trump, St. John's Lutheran Church, Mar- 
tinsburg, W. Va.: 

" The lecture was clear, sympathetic, edifying, and en- 
tertaining. Not a word of prejudice or uncharity fell from 
Dr. Douthat's lips." 

Huntington (W. Va.) "Advertiser," June 24, 1902 : 

" It was fitting that the Gettysburg story should be told 
in a house of worship, for charity, love, and reconciliation 
breathed in its every word." 

Bristol (Tenn.) " Courier," August 2, 1902 : 

" The lecture was above prejudice, being on the plane of 
a true patriot's thoughts— a plane above hate and malice 
and high up in the atmosphere of true affection and rever- 
ence for bravery and soldierly qualities in whatever cause 
they may be exercised." 



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Prof. L. J. Corbly, Prin. Marshall College, Huntington. 

W. Va., Sept. 1, '04: 

"After hearing Dr. Douthat's Gettysburg lecture, July 
26, 1904, 1 remarked to a friend: * I have read everything 
available bearing upon the history of that dreadful conflict, 
but now feel for the first time that I know something defi- 
nite, something fixed about it. ' " 

Judge W. I. Wallace, Lebanon, Mo., July 10, '05 : 

" I don't know when I have been so pleased and in- 
structed as I was by Dr. Douthat's lecture in this city on 
June 28, 1905. I regard it a masterpiece in the lecture 
field and so commend it to people everywhere. North, 
South, East and West, as most able, eloquent and enter- 
taining." 

Parkersburg (W. Va.) "Sentinel," Feb. 21, '03 : 

" As has been said, the lecture is free from sectional preju- 
dice, and is an interesting review for the old soldiers and 
their friends on both sides. It is an instructive and thrill- 
ing story for the young, a compliment to Northern steadi- 
ness and an illustration of Southern impetuosity." 



For Engagements with the Lecturer, 
Address, 

Capt. R. W. Douthat, 

Morgantown, W. Va. 



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